Gugny Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-cline-jr/2a/388/872 He is currently the VP of Fulcrum Capital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 well, he did go to Stanford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I see what you did there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I told a bunch of this on here before years ago... I am drinking buddies with an ex-player who played one year on the Bills and three on the 49ers as a back-up in the mid to late 90s. Mike Salmon, whose brother is Tim Salmon, a Hall of Famer second baseman for the Angels. He was housemates with Tony Cline and there is a great Tony Cline story. I forgot who the other housemate was but he was a second or third stringer. Salmon got traded to the Bills and didn't know anyone. His agent was the same agent as Cline or the other housemate so Salmon showed up at their house on Elmwood Ave before ever going to practice once. He had been given a playbook and instructions to be at the field house at 8 am or whatever. Cline decides to fukk with him, and when Salmon goes to sleep, his first night in Buffalo, Cline and the other guy turn Salmon's alarm clock ahead an hour, and then change the time he has to be at One Bills Drive on his schedule ahead an hour. So when Salmon wakes up in the morning he thinks he's already an hour late for his first practice and meeting with Marv and John Butler. Salmon freaks, gets in his rental car and goes 100mph down Elmwood Avenue to the Skyway toward Orchard Park. Then gets pulled over by the cops on the Skyway. He tells them he just got traded to the Bills and is late for his first practice. Two cop cars give him a police escort to the stadium with lights flashing and sirens going to get him there ASAP. But he's an hour early not late. There is no one at the stadium except Marv Levy and Butler and a few coaches. They hear sirens and look out the window. Salmon jumps out of his car and races to the door but it's locked. It looks like he's fleeing the cops. And Levy and Butler are looking out the window at two cop cars with their lights flashing and sirens going and Mike Salmon pounding on the door as if trying to escape from them. He told the story way better than I did, too. By the way, Salmon said the Bills were a much better organization than the 49ers, from the owner to the management to the stars to the back-ups. He hated when he heard he was traded to the Bills and then immediately loved it when he got to Buffalo. Still considers himself a Bill and is still friends with a ton of players from that long ago. Loved living in Buffalo and playing on the Bills and he said a lot of players in the league feel that way. They don't want to come here and then as soon as they do, they love it. He's a great guy though, and loves Buffalo and still loves the Bills. He said in three years on SF, he never once met Eddie DeBartalo but the first day he arrived on the Bills, Ralph Wilson came down to meet him and introduce himself. He said John Butler told him we were a team and we stuck together and if he couldn't deal with that, we don't want you here but Mike loved it, and said the 49er management were all pricks. He said the stars on the 49ers were unapproachable but Kelly and Bruce and Andre and Thurman were awesome. He even liked living in the city of Buffalo and loved the music scene and bars and people, and this is a guy who lived in Southern Cal and Phoenix his whole life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I told a bunch of this on here before years ago... Great story, KtD. I hear players love Buffalo once they get here, all the time. The ones that don't seem to like it are those who are really into the club scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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